2023-05-16 02:31:16
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his optimism about winning the second round of the presidential elections, which will be held on May 28.
Erdogan said in a post on his official Facebook account: “We will emerge victorious from the second round of the presidential elections, which will be held on May 28, by increasing the percentage of votes we obtained on May 14, and we hope to achieve historic success.”
The Turkish president indicated that the resolution of the presidential elections was postponed to the second round, by a difference of less than half a percent.
The following are the highlights of Erdogan’s post after announcing the results of the first round of the Turkish presidential elections:
- The May 14th election is one of the highest participating elections in our history.
- The elections took place in an atmosphere worthy of Turkish democracy and the will of our nation.
- Regardless of the outcome, the winner of the May 14 elections is democracy and the Turkish nation of 85 million people.
- Yesterday Turkey showed that it is one of the most advanced countries in the world in terms of democratic culture.
- Our nation once again showed great support for me with over 27 million votes and 49.51 percent of the vote.
- I would like to thank all the citizens who went to the polls on May 14, whether they were inside or outside the country, and expressed their free will.
- As a politician who has known no authority except the will of the people throughout his life, I respect this will that was manifested in the ballot box.
- We will fulfill our responsibility to our nation by working without stopping or resting until May 28th.
- Our people defended their free will despite the attempt to engineer politics in our country by the Qandil Mountains (a reference to the PKK organization), Pennsylvania (a reference to Fethullah Gulen), social media platforms and foreign magazine covers.
Erdogan advanced in the presidential elections after receiving 49.5 percent of the vote, which is less than the 50 percent level needed to win in the first round, while his main rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, got 45 percent.
Kilicdaroglu’s chances of winning the elections may depend on the support of Sinan Ogan, the nationalist candidate, who finished third with 5.2 percent of the vote.
But Ogan said he would support Kilicdaroglu in the run-off only if he agreed not to make concessions to the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which backed him even though it is not part of the opposition alliance.
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